CLOVER: Adient Creates an Interior for the CASE Future
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Connected, automated, shared, and electric (CASE) is the near-future—and Clover has an interior execution that is just as advanced and almost ready to go.
When you get inside, “your” seat is indicated via lighting. Ha a curved OLED screen that goes from side to side or what you will hear from speakers embedded in the headrest (eight speakers, as well as noise-cancellation tech) and the position of your seat are all prepared.
There are four seating positions (although there are center consoles between each pair of seats that can be flipped up so that there is a position for a child or someone who got the short straw).
Each seat is positioned at a 15° angle. In a shared environment, if someone is sitting across from you and you are shy, you may not want to make eye contact with that person. So, by positioning the seats at 15°, you are looking at a point at the center of the vehicle, not at the person directly across. And if you do want to talk, that is easy to do.
When one of the seats is in the relaxed mode, the heel point is pulled back, so there is less obstruction in the open space of the vehicle. Think of business class seats on a commercial airliner where the person reclining has a leg rest that extends out in front of the person, which is a challenge should you have the window seat and need to reach the aisle.
